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Saturday, May 07, 2005

Saturday Night

Don't forget to check out that Players Poll right below this post about whether or not players should be able to argue decisions with umps, instead of just captains raising the issue.

StraightShots @ Happy Pool - Looked like another SS loss early on as Spider_4298 schooled mvp_joey, who officially won't be playing again this season as he withdrew before the captain-requested box could be made, based on an accusation made on YM outside of the match (ego-happy imbeciles), then Cricky_71 got a win off luckiest_man_alive. but wins from pool professor, Stick 777, and kula's first win playing for StraightShots cleared the way for Judge1417 to come in with 3 wins, this time in game 6 for a change, and close it out after a few silly mistakes from CJwNY. akahoopg0d, acting captain for the night, added to it in game 7 to finish up a 5-2 SS win, their first of the season better than 4-3.

Atlantic - So in the Atlantic StraightShots have a tie with BritPool just 1 game out of 4th place, a tie that BritPool has Head to head advantage on. Good new they're 1 game out, bad news is they've got PFN, QZ, and PO to finish out. So curently SS's season is just about on life support. And of course Joey was a total dud for the team so maybe now that they aren't wasting a space on an idiot they'll have a chance to add someone who knows how to play. And by play I mean more than just how to shoot. They're 4-8 by the way.

Central - HappyPool. They concede 4th to XPool again, as XP won the match between them 4-3. HP now 6-6 after blowing the 2-0 lead and getting swamped by the 5-0 SS run, CueKeepers 1 game back, SPool 2, Angels 3, a WA loss or an HP or XPool win would eliminated Wild Angels officially from Playoff contention, but they've had quite a season coming in with practically 0 interleague experience, and again like I said earlier this week, season 6 they'll probably finish just under .500, then season 7 I think will be the season, if they're still around, they make a serious run at the Playoffs. ...Of course finishing below .500 may work looking at that Atlantic this season lol.

3 weeks to go, and I'd say 5 to 7 teams have somewhat legitimate chances (at least) of getting into the Top 4 (among teams that aren't) and the big Cinderella run to watch: BritPool. Never made it to Playoffs, got a very legitimate chance, they do have a 6-1 humiliation of 8BallRunners from back in Week 1, so I would efinately watch out for this team. They undoubtedly know their record, know they're only a game behind, they have the talent to do it.

Now, time to curse some people. Sunday night, that +16 will be under fire yet again. AF_fire_wolf87 already has it tied with his win against Luis, yes a win is a win, and PH_aka_pomking has a +14 resulting from back-to-back Cam wins, and a huge win over BNR this week. But guess what else? MZ_ph-alex is on the verge of breaking a record that, aside from Luis' huge total wins, some may have thought unbreakable. He has won 7 straight, and has a 1905 Skill Rating very quietly. That puts him a mere 2 points shy of a player currently on his old team, PH's pool_hustler_don for highest ever all-time Skill Rating. So Sunday could see records just get blown out of the water, fire wolf has the option of going for it Sunday or waiting, pomking can make a run at it Sunday and break the win streak record as well, Alex could break Don's Rating record either Sunday, or against DreamPool. A huge Week 13 coming up not just for teams and the Playoffs, but also for individual players. So best of luck to all 3 players here trying to break those records.


MLP Players Poll

OK, so a little arguing with the umps over the past few weeks has finally got enough of my attention. So here's the newest Players Poll Question:

Should the players be allowed to argue with the umps, or should it only be Managers who are allowed to make appeals?

Could be an interesting topic ;/